i was useing unlockx today to use my 20 gig seagate hdd in my xbox i cloned my 8 x box drive gig and every thing got the pass word for the new drive from live info when i was typing this password i accedentally inserted a wrong key now when i try to unlock my drive with the real key i cant get acess to the drive(because of the first wrong insert).
can some one help me all so i was using a cd boot disc so i dont have the password file saved on a floppy agian help me please

My understanding of it is that you have to have the password to unlock the drive again... I take it you don't know what you typed in (where the mistake was). If you do just use that to unlock it and do it again.

Without the "wrong" inserted passwd your only chance is to gess the "mis-type".
The lastest version of xboxhdm will ask you to write down the passwd used and to save the logs to a floppy if running unlockx from CD. Let this be a warning everybody If you have xboxhdm_V1.0, please get v1.1 which should warn people about using unlockx from CD and provide the savelog command.

OH SHIT NOW I LOCKED MY ORIGINAL DRIVE but this time i used the right keybut the drive cant unlock i think its a glitch in unlockx so now my xbox is useless i have the eeprom key though and hd key some\body help me can partion magic or some other software format the drive to a unlock state without the password

help please

You cannot format you way out of a locked drive. The drive will simply not acces any IDE commands untill the UNLOCK code is sent ot the drive. Use the locking/unlocking tools from floppy man! Then you have the log files....

If you know that you used the correct key then you should be able to unlock the drive again on the PC. If unlockx doesn't work try the hdunlock tool.

Also check that your IDE cables are firmly attached and that you didn't bend a pin.

If you can't guess your password, then you might as well throw the hard drive away. 20 GB isn't all that much anyways.

For your 8 GB hard drive, try using atapwd/hdlock/hdunlock/hddisabl. Sometimes it works where UnLockX fails (and vice versa).

ok i got back my 20 gig seems unlock has a glitch (with passwords) after all my problem now is i made a back up of my ori hdd i was restotroing it with hdd driver then light when off during the process when i boot back into windows it says that drive is 809mb and that it cant format when i open hdd driver it say no xbox hdd what can i do to get back the space.

Formatting it in Windows won't help you. Either clone your 8 GB drive to it again, or use ldots' xboxhd linux CD to recreate the FATX partitions.

i am in some deep $hit i still cant get back my original hdd space when i wipe the partions using idots pac and reboot back in windows i still cant get back the 20 gig it says 809mb (because of previous hdd cloning had stop suddenly)i have acess to no more hdd for now so i am stuck i installed idots package created a new hdd from scratch but xbox boot to dash and froze i did not get a clock on the screen or nothing like that it just froze
is it possible to get back my partion space so i can try again

Please try my package again. But use option 4) first to wipe the existing partition table before rebuilding. And of course be sure you packed the C-folder on the CDROM with working system-files (maybe use Slayers Evox and get what you need from /SYSTEM/ALL/c ).

i am having a really bad day i use your option 4 in the package but the drive is still not clean still shows 809 mb i notice when i use my original hd files (on the c and e dir} instead on slayer i boot to dashboard but i get no menus not even the clock screen when i use slayer files i get a error 21 is there a way to do a full format like one that takes a while to complete please help me

Where does it say that it's 809 MB? When it's detected by the BIOS? In Windows' Device Manager? Somewhere else?

Also, could you please use punctuation (at least periods)? It's hard to undestand what you're saying.

OK - it really sounds like your drive is messed up. Most lilke from this crashed HDDriver run. Sounds like the geometry of the drive is all of a sudden wrong??? I mean even if you put a stock (but unlocked) xbox HD in windows it would show as 8Gb/10Gb - regardless of the filesystem. I'm not sure formatting will do any good. Think some parameters are set wrong on the drive... I'll get back to you if I get any ideas.

thats it exactly, even hdd driver says that the goemerty is incorrect, when i try to restore the image,it took a long time but its like it didnt do anything to the drive,
the drive does show not in windows and in partion magic and other software it says 809mb
i will be wait for your helpful reply thanks

This sounds more like a cable issue to me. If BIOS detects the size incorrectly, it is 9 times out of 10, a cable problem. Try a new, or at least, a different cable.
Other possible problems could be a faulty controller on the drive or sector 0 is bad.


To answer the topic... How tall r u?

When you restore an image with HDD driver, it will restore that drive to the exact parameters of the drive you took the image from, regardless of it's size, and especially if you restore all paritions. I know cuz i've tried just restoring the image of my soft mod'd xbox on an unmod'd one, and it worked fine, but bigger files weren't restored, didnt show in his e:, but still said the space was used, only because HDD driver wrote those values into the partition FAT table or whatever, even tho the files weren't really copied.

Could FDisk detect the partition and delete it ? Then try formating it for the xbox over again ? or get an image from someone with a 20 gig drive that has there e: and f: empty, and it will give you whatever space they have....I dunno, just throwing out ideas...you could get hardcore and hex edit the image, and try and set the partition values manually, like you have to do if HDD driver won't pull up your file system....

Found the problems guys my partion got currput by shitty hdd driver i use active@killerdisk to wipe the drive clean, no other software could touch this partion good software , use you package after eveything went great thanks

i would like to thank all you guys for you support

props go to idots for his great package and support

shouts to Grospolina your name and picture freaks me out man LOL anywayz thanks

best forums around.

Have you tried to do the configmagic hotswap approach to retrieve your lock password?. I retrieved mine this way.

Look on your boot disk with UnlockX on

There should be a txt file, open it up, it has the last password you enterd

Use that to unlock your drive

I did this it was very late but luckely I sorted it out

Totally off-subject... liteon6x, you're a complete KLUTZ, not a cluts.

if u guys were follow the thread i said i used a ms dos boot cd with unlock x on it hence i can not retrive my password because there is no txt file

@Ghettofreeryder can u tell me step by step how toretrived a lock hard drive password with config magic and hotswap again the xbox does not accept the orginal hard now because the password has changed.

if there is a will there is a way